Research and Development (Patent Pedrick)

In my research on Arthur Paul Pedrick I never found a definitive list of all of the patents Arthur had approved. The Wikipedia article on A P Pedrick at present wrongly states that he “filed for 162 United Kingdom patents between 1962 and his death in 1976”. Through lots and lots of searching on Espacenet and looking up his self references I found 163 of his UK patents. I don’t know for sure that’s all of them but I will still list them here for the benefit of anyone else out there who is looking for a list of Pedrick Patents. They are a real range of serious to silly and show an incredible appetite for invention and imagination that I am massively jealous of. Some of the patent titles alone I love, particularly #73, #121 and of course #153 the legendary GB1426698A.

GB1022374A Marine cargo trains with hydrodynamic drag reduction by air separation layer and propulsion by nuclear powered towing craft in relation to the international transport of Food and other Supplies in Bulk

GB1047735A Arrangements For The Transfer of Fresh Water from One Location on the Earth’s Surface to Another at a Different Latitude, for the Purpose of Irrigation, with Pumping Energy Derived from the Effect of the Earth’s Rotation about the Polar Axis

GB1047736A Improvements in the irrigation of large tracts of land

GB1053508A Improvements in “Floating Fields” and “Farms” with Desalination of Sea Water by Energy from Fluid Fuels

GB1066049A Improvements in the propulsion of marine and supra marine vessels or craft

GB1066050A Improvements in means of propulsion for marine and supra marine vessels or craft

GB1067703A Submarine cargo trains, with arrangements for the use of obsolete or surplus nuclear submarines

GB1080189A Sea bed anchorage device

GB1085459A Improvements in gas turbine jet engines particularly for vertical take off and landing delta wing sub and supersonic aircraft

GB1195946A Fan or Multi-Swing Wings, to Reduce Wing Loading in large Multi-Seat Passenger Aircraft to Make Possible “Pancake” Emergency Landings, Using a Stabilising Parachute, and to enable an Aircraft, Convertible to an Automobile to be Stored in an Automobile Garage

GB1203136A Improvements In The Irrigation Of Deserts By Snow Piped From Polar Regions For The Purpose Of Minimising The Impending World Famine

GB1203166A Swinging, or Suspended, Multi-Deck Cities

GB1204639A Internal Combustion Capsules

GB1204648A Improvements in Semi-Buoyant Tubes

GB1204649A Cruciform, Kite and Parachute Aircraft

GB1205200A Improvements in Artificial Respiratory Devices for Purposes Similar to those Fulfilled by Devices of the Type Known as “Iron Lungs”

GB1206260A Wave Length Selective Light Screens

GB1206580A Sonar Pulse Emitting Submarine Cable For Guidance of Surface and Submarine Vessels, and their Detection with Special Reference to an Investigation of the Loch Ness Monster

GB1256350A Television using Colours Produced by Light Ray Scan of Prismatic Surfaces on Screens of Glass or other Suitable Materials

GB1280928A Apparatus for the Comparison of Coded Pressure Pulse Registrations for Use in Filing Systems in Space to Improve the efficiency of the International Patent System and Application to the Recognition of “Voice Prints” to operate Devices by Words of Command

GB1282391A Improvements in Laser Beam Compression Guns

GB1287207A Improvements in Semi-Buoyant Tubes

GB1299270A Apparatus for Perforating Material with Very Small Holes Using Electrode Spark Discharge in an Evacuated Space in Magnetic Fields Between Like Magnetic Poles

GB1311140A Minute Particle, or “True Atom”, Beam Microscope Intended Primarily for High Magnification of Living Cells, or Biological Structures, Particularly for Cancer Research

GB1357769A Reactor for Release of Energy from Nuclei of Atoms by Centrifugal Disintegration without a Chain Reaction

GB1361962A Earth Orbital Bombs as Nuclear Deterrents

GB1366285A A Control System for Regulating the Speed of Deuterium-Tritium Tip Bullets Required to Implode upon One Another to Produce A Controlled Nuclear Fusion Reaction

GB1374399A An Electron-microscope for Use on Living Cells

GB1388367A A Process for Producing Hydrogen and Electricity from Sea, River or Lake Water

GB1388517A Electrically Operated Index and Comparison System

GB1391569A Miniature-Image Producing Spectacles And Binoculars

GB1394639A Improvements in Automobiles Driven from the Back Seat

GB1395137A Photo-Electric Generator, Particularly for Recharging the Batteries of Earth Orbital Space Satellites by Laser Beams, with a Possible Explanation of Colour Sight

GB1405575A Propelling Automobiles without using Petrol, or Gasolene

GB1405737A Large Flat Based Aircraft, Capable of Hovering Flight, Particularly for the Transport of Lengths of Pipe Line

GB1405739A Vtol Aircraft of Cruciform Shape with Parachute Landing Capability in an Emergency

GB1408689A Improvements in Arrangements for Examining or Drilling the Seabed

GB1409210A A Plant for the Thermonuclear Fusion of Deuterium Obtained from Sea Water

GB1411203A Using Gas Turbines to Generate Electricity from any Waste Combustible Materials to Overcome the ‘Energy Crisis’

GB1411354A Using Electrostatic Levitation to Reduce the Resistance to the High Speed Movement of Ice or Oil Filled Balls in Tubes, with an Explanation of the Enigma of the Nucleus of the ‘Splittable Atom’

GB1414286A Nuclear Power Plant with Emergency Ejection of Reactor Core

GB1414601A Using the Pull of a Beam of Light on a Liquid Surface to Explain Colour Sight, with the Provision of a Chromatic Selection Device

GB1415487A Reducing the Tendency of a Golf Ball to Slice or Hook, by Electrostatic Forces

GB1415629A Improvements in ‘True Atom’ or Graviton Beam Microscopes, Particularly for Cancer Research

GB1416666A Sea Bed Crawling Submarine Craft

GB1420426A Electricity Generation by Nuclear Fission Reactor and Closed Cycle Gas Turbines, with Core Automatically Shut Down by Coolant Flow Failure and Dropped out of Plant for Sealing if Temperature is Excessive

GB1420589A Improvements in Nuclear Fission Reactors with Arrangements for Ejecting the Core in an Emergency

GB1421240A Improvements in Mortarless Brick Work to Reduce House Building Costs